The Ideal-ist: Episode 8 (Eliot)
Welcome back to The Ideal-ist, the companion series to The Autistic Mile.
In this series, Shane Gaffney explores the characters, games, shows, and stories that resonate with him on a personal level—not simply because they’re entertaining, but because they can reflect real emotional struggles, social experiences, and ways of seeing the world that feel especially familiar to autistic individuals.
In this episode, Shane discusses Eliot from the upcoming game, Giggleland. Introverted, timid, and deeply isolated, Eliot is the kind of character whose social awkwardness and sense of being on the…
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